Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation of the Sable Island Horses Contributed by Philip D. McLoughlin, Department of Biology, University of Saskatchewan. Philip is an Associate Professor of Animal Population Ecology and is leading a long-term (30+ year), collaborative research program into [...]More →

A study using stable isotope analysis to determine the wintering locations and diets of individual Ipswich sparrows, and to relate those data to breeding success, was started in 2006. Feather samples were collected from over 100 adults, and the fates [...]More →

The breeding population of the Ipswich sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis princeps), Sable Island’s endemic passerine, was censussed in spring 2006 using two methods: one used from 1968-1995 that had yielded a population of up to 3400 birds, and another developed in [...]More →

Sable Island was surveyed for terns in June 2006 using ground-based surveys by the Canadian Wildlife Service. The island was crossed every kilometre from north to south. Tern colonies were identified and subsequently surveyed. 2426-3960 pairs of terns were identified [...]More →